Security researchers from Kaspersky have discovered a particularly sophisticated variant of the Triada Trojan on imitation Android smartphones. More than 2,600 users worldwide, including in Germany, are affected.

Broadcom is significantly increasing the minimum requirements for VMware licenses. According to VMware distributor Arrow, the minimum number of cores required will increase from 16 to 72 from April 10.

A single North Korean agent operated with twelve different identities in Europe and the USA at the same time, while other IT employees were specifically looking for jobs in Germany and Portugal.

On Monday, Amazon announced Nova Act, a universal AI agent for browser control for simple tasks. At the same time, the company is releasing the Nova Act SDK for developers.

Massive data leak at Samsung Germany: around 270,000 customer service tickets were apparently posted on the Internet by a hacker using the pseudonym “GHNA”. The incident could probably have been prevented with basic security measures.

The ChatGPT developer OpenAI has secured 40 billion dollars from investors for further growth. The unprecedented financial injection brings the total valuation to 300 billion dollars, as OpenAI announced.

More and more free file converters on the Internet are turning out to be treacherous traps. The FBI warns of manipulated online tools that not only convert files, but also smuggle malware or even ransomware onto victims’ computers. Converters for documents, music files and file mergers are particularly affected.

Microsoft is presenting new virtual assistants with artificial intelligence for widespread use in industry at the Hannover Messe. The “Factory Operations Agent” is one of the software company’s trade fair innovations.

The short message service X (formerly Twitter) once again recorded significant outages on March 30, 2025. According to the incident reporting portal DownDetector, several hundred thousands were received from affected users.

The Twitter successor X is also losing its formal independence in Elon Musk’s empire. The platform will become part of his AI company xAI – and is likely to provide a lot of training material for the software.

Among other things, generative AI and greater network security are being promoted. A digital earth model is also being expanded in order to simulate extreme weather events even more accurately.

US President Donald Trump is serious about car tariffs. How could Europe defend itself against this? The German Foreign Minister sees a possibility with software updates for cell phones.